New York (AP)-Sean’s sex trafficking for sex traffic “Didi” resumed Monday when singer Zora Richard testified that Hip-Hop Magnna was threatening to kill her if she told someone that she saw him beating her longtime girlfriend.
Richard told jurors at the Manhattan Federal Court that Kombs issued the threat of the day after witnessing Bad Boy Records founder trying to hit Kazardra Cassie Ventura with a pan and then beats her. She said he had told her and another woman who saw the attack that we “can disappear” if one of them revealed what they see.
US lawyer assistant Mitsi Steiner asked Richard what we took “we can disappear” to mean.
“We can die,” Richard replied, saying she was shocked, because all this happened just when she started recording with DIDDY – Dirty Money, a music trio that she formed with Combs and another R&B singer.
The 55 -year -old Combs is a test in New York on charges of sex and racketeering, claiming that he used his status as an entertainment intermediary for abuse of women, including casings, through threats and violence. He admitted that he was not guilty and his lawyers claim that prosecutors were drawn up evidence of domestic violence, but not federal crimes.
For four days at the Witness Stand last week, Cassie testified that he wanted a love relationship with Kombs for almost 11 years together, but instead was subjected to weekly “freaks” with freaks with male sex workers who leave her too exhausted and damaged to pursue her music career.
Shortly after Cassie ended on Friday, Richard began to stay in the podium, saying he witnessed Combs Attack Cassie several times, including during a visit to the Kombs home recording home studio in 2009, when Richard said she and another woman saw Kassie on the ground.
She said Kombs tried to hit herbs on the head with a pan, but Cassie managed to divert him.
On Monday, Steiner asked Richard how often he witnessed the Kombs defeated his girlfriend.
“Often,” Richard said. “He would hit her, suffocate her, drag her, hit her in her mouth. I saw him kick her, hit her in his stomach.”
Richard said that on other occasions, she saw Koms hit Cassie in the face with a closed fist and that she saw him hit her in his stomach during a dispute at a restaurant.
Cassie used makeup, clothes and sunglasses to cover up injuries that included bruises on the face, eyes, lips, arms and knees, Richard said.
Richard testifies that the beating sometimes happened when Cassie talks about himself, “If there is an opinion on something.”
At other times, she said, “It may be accidental. We wouldn’t even know where it came from.”
Richard, who also participated in the Daniti Kane group, said Combs, including his bodyguards, also witnessed violence.
“They wouldn’t react. They would do nothing,” Richard testified.
Richard supported Cassie’s testimony that Combs had suffocated Cassie’s newly -loved career, saying that she had heard Koms tell Cassie that he had “possessed” her and that every success he had, he would have under his conditions.
“He will come when he said he would come,” Richard said.
Bad Boy Records signed Cassie for a 10 album deal in 2006, but only released one-one Cassie, which came out the same year. Cassie and Combs began to meet in 2007 and split forever in 2018.
Cassie testified last week that although he continued to go to the recording studio and work on songs, Kombs refused to release them.
Richard said Kombs would be angry – sometimes forcibly – when she and other artists suggested that they help Cassie write songs.
“G -N -Combs did not like this when we talked to Cassie and we would often pay for it,” Richard testified, adding, “If you don’t stay in line, there were consequences.”
She recalled that Kombs scolded and told her to stay out of her relationship.